Listen to a reading of “Hard To Swallow Pills”:
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You were born in the middle of the most sophisticated and expansive mass-scale perception management operation that has ever taken place.
The news media is propaganda and schooling is designed to condition us to accept that propaganda.
Public understanding of what a normal moderate position looks like and what a radical extremist position looks like has been warped to the most insane extent possible.
Noam Chomsky is not a radical and is in fact far too aligned with establishment power on far too many issues.
The difference between an AOC Democrat and a true anti-imperialist socialist is greater than the difference between an AOC Democrat and a Republican.
The difference between the mainstream media narrative about the world and actual reality is greater than the difference between the mainstream media narrative about the world and literally any work of fiction.
You’ve been lied to your entire life about your nation, your government, your nation’s official enemies, your society, and your very self.
Your brain and your senses were evolved to keep your evolutionary ancestors alive, not to tell you true things about the nature of reality.
Your mistakes don’t matter and neither do anyone else’s.
The self is an illusion and all beliefs are false.
The world is so much more beautiful than you realize.
You are so much more beautiful than you realize.
The world is secretly perfect.
You are secretly perfect.
It is safe to relinquish all labels and let all of life be ineffable.
It is safe to relinquish all identity and let yourself be ineffable.
The universe is forever out of control, and that’s a good thing.
There is nowhere to fall to.
This is all infinitely supported and profoundly cherished.
This is all meaningless, gratuitous, astonishing, and delightful.
We are dancing together in the heart of eternity.
Your every molecule is intimately embraced by all that is.
Everything in existence says yes to itself.
Everything in you says yes to everything in existence; even your “no” is made of yes.
You are beloved.
You are love.
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shing, and delightful.
We are dancing together in the heart of eternity.
Your every molecule is intimately embraced by all that is.
Everything in existence says yes to itself.
Everything in you says yes to everything in existence; even your “no” is made of yes.
You are beloved.
You are love.
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Michael Maratsos / April 20, 2022
In general I agree with just about everything you say in your posts, which is not the happiest result one can imagine. But I can’t agree with this post’s take on how wonderful we really are and how wonderful the universe really is. This universe is the one in which the only known process available to produce us was evolution, which as you point out, has set us out to be mis-perceivers, misguided, and very disappointing creatures in general. I don’t see any way not to count these natural processes, and their unhappy results, as part of “real” reality. I am not adverse to the idea that aspects of the universe, and us, are indeed an ineffable marvel. But saying the rest of the universe, the parts that produce a very flawed humanity, are not actually “real” as well requires, I think, a self-propagandizing effort at least as great as the ones that you justly despise. We are an existence in which terrible things and great things coexist, however unhappily.
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Jack Oliver / April 20, 2022
ZIO/US no longer has access to FREE oil – bombing the ME for OIL days are over – Russia stopped it !
Turkey taking up NATOs position in Iraq shows how desperate they are for OIL to keep the economic PONZI going !
The ZIO/US has been reduced to stealing Syrian OIL and transporting it by ROAD tanker !
US and British OIL companies have been booted from Russia for causing ( likely deliberate ) massive evironmental damage through pipeline leaks !
ME and North African countries have been left in ruins by the ZIO/US insatiable economic appetite for OIL !
The game is up for the OIL dependent US and EU – only economic collapse can now follow !
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Inna / April 20, 2022
Before they (the British and Americans) discovered oil in the Middle East, they killed off almost all whales in all the oceans to use their fat for heating oil. Disgustingly cruel, nothing is ever enough for these people.
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Max424 / April 20, 2022
Yet still the whales have forgiven us.
https://www.expeditions.com/expedition-stories/stories/history-and-mystery-of-baja-gray-whale-encounters/
Or maybe this new form of behavior is a plea from them, please don’t slaughter us again.
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svay / April 20, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Soviet_Union_and_Russia#Modern_whaling
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svay / April 20, 2022
The US isn’t stealing Syrian oil because it’s short of the stuff, but because it’s a convenient way of depriving the Syrian government of income while providing unaccounted slush funds for its local allies.
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svay / April 20, 2022
According to this, Syria had 0.15% of the world’s oil reserves in 2016.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-reserves-by-country/
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Pascal / April 19, 2022
In the series “hard to swallow pills”, “all beliefs are false” is a false belief.
All beliefs are true is also a false belief because if all beliefs are true, then the contrary of all true beliefs are also true. Yet the contrary of all true beliefs are false.
There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
Well… there ain’t. Sorry…
It’s a bit like the old syllogism: a rare horse is expensive, a cheap horse is rare, therefore a cheap horse is expensive :o)
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svay / April 20, 2022
If all beliefs are false, then of course “all beliefs are false” is a false belief.
And if all beliefs are true, then of course false beliefs are true.
Why should there be some kinda way outta here?
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Pascal / April 20, 2022
There’s no reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who think that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate.
So let’s not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late.
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svay / April 20, 2022
‘If it ain’t not untrue
Then it should be false too’
Was logicians’ decision
To stop contradiction
But Truth said, ‘Ha! If only they knew.’
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mijj / April 19, 2022
gnostic amen
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Bill / April 19, 2022
Likee
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Glenn / April 19, 2022
The purpose of censorship is to create a population infantile adults.
The word infant comes from the Latin words meaning “unable to speak”.
Censors do not intend infants to see the world as unadapted adults do, but as infantile adults do. (Adults adapted to Not-See-ism)
Adapting to an infantile mode of being in childhood makes it difficult to speak of censored things as an adapted infantile adult.
Very young children are unable to speak, and therefore are unable to learn and speak complex language things before language is available to them.
Things that one is not able to speak of are difficult to think of.
Things that one is not able to think of are difficult to speak of.
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Pap-a-lap / April 19, 2022
“You know, you think that ol’ pride’s gonna choke you going down but I tell you what, ain’t a night goes by I don’t thank the Boss up there for giving me a big enough throat.”
– Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin) / in James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy
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Andrew / April 19, 2022
So very beautifully put Caitlin.
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brad / April 19, 2022
“Noam Chomsky is not a radical and is in fact far too aligned with establishment power on far too many issues.”
Thank you!
Somebody please pass the word to Aaron.
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Pap-a-lap / April 19, 2022
“One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.”
– Che Guevara
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Max424 / April 19, 2022
Walking tour of a prole ghetto in Hefei, the most recent addition to Tier 1 city status in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtdwMwQXCKs
One thing I have to say about the oppression of the proletariat in China, the main role of the opprossed seems to be to stroll around in an aesethic wonderland, and occassionally take some of it in when not i phoning or eating.
If China is the land of 10,000 cuisines, which is readily apparent in this video, it is also fast becoming the land of 10,000 centrally planned seven dimensional creative design features per every 100 square meters.
Note:
“Noam Chomsky is not a radical and is in fact far too aligned with establishment power on far too many issues.”
Agree, wholeheartedly, if for no other reason than it was Mr. Chomsky who continuously told me over the years to vote for the lesser of two evils, when it was clear to anyone of sound mind, that for several decades now there have been no lesser evils to vote for inside the Belway Complex.
“The difference between an AOC Democrat and a true anti-imperialist socialist is greater than the difference between an AOC Democrat and a Republican.”
Agree with the caveat that as a former bartender … oh what am I talking about. Although it is extremely rare, even a bartender can become a permanent sell-out.
After all, it did take two, count em, two, masked atttendants to carry Ms. OC’s train on her Tax the Rich gown. That’s was one masked attendant too many for there to be any possible spiritual/political recovery, in my opinion.
There are certain lines that once you cross them, you can never come back from.
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jerry schaefer / April 19, 2022
absolutely beautiful true and wonderful
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Carolyn / April 19, 2022
Ah, this is why I know it’s good to read you!
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Inna / April 19, 2022
100%
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